He’s back! Karl-Theodor zu Guttnberg has re-entered German politics. The following was machine-translated from German, with the original German below it:

For a long time, the former Minister of Defense has excused himself.Now Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg returns to SPIEGEL information in German politics.

Former Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is to become a driving force of the CSU in the Bundestag election campaign. Guttenberg had said he would come to Bavaria for several big rallies. He wants to “get in fully” …

The former minister of defense living in the USA had met with CSU General Secretary Andreas Scheuer at the beginning of the week to a two-hour meeting in a Munich restaurant. According to SPIEGEL information the details of his commitment to the party were discussed.

Guttenberg does not want to apply for a Bundestag mandate. He did not want to take anyone’s seat, he said in conversation with Scheuer.

It is the return of Guttenberg to the political stage. In 2011 he had to resign as a defense minister, because his doctoral thesis had been unmasked as a plagiarism. CSU boss Horst Seehofer has been advertising Guttenberg for some time. He hopes that his popularity is still great despite the plagiarism.

21 And in his place shall stand up a contemptible person, to whom they had not given the honor of the kingdom: but he shall come in time of security, and shall obtain the kingdom by flatteries. (Daniel 11:21, ASV)

Interestingly, the Baron was considered to have had a major chance to become Chancellor of Germany before the plagiarism scandal. In a sense, he was “a man spurned and passed over for advancement” as THE MESSAGE version of Daniel 11:21 indicates.

Also interestingly, even though many have rejected, ridiculed, and despised him for plagiarism, after the Baron resigned, some (and this was alluded to earlier) have suggested that he should rise up again as Germany needs him:

“I hope that we keep him as a politician and see his return as soon as possible,” Hans-Peter Uhl, the domestic affairs spokesperson of the conservative Union bloc in parliament, said in the Wednesday edition of the daily Mitteldeutsche Zeitung…

Peter Altmaier, parliamentary chief of the Union bloc, also said he can imagine Guttenberg returning to politics in the foreseeable future.

According to political scientist Gerd Langguth from the University of Bonn, Guttenberg will not likely stay out of the public eye for long. He told the Wednesday edition of the Thüringer Allgemeine newspaper that he sees a comeback in about three years…Langguth said Guttenberg’s “honorable statements” on Tuesday had made such a return feasible. (Talk begins about a Guttenberg comeback. The Local, 3 March 2011. http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20110302-33437.html)